“Use it up. Wear it out. Make it do. Or, do without.” This is an old saying from the depression years and especially during World War II between the years of 1941 to 1945. When jobs were scarce and money tight, people learned how to make do with what they had or to do without. [More]

Lovers of classic television commercials and vintage Jordan shoes will fondly remember some of the ads that aired back in the late 1980s and 90s asking the all-important question “Is it the shoes?” Folks in Missouri looking to break a particular Guinness world record would answer that question with a hearty “yes!” in regards to an upcoming endeavor. [More]

Challenged by his school to come up with a community service project, New Jersey teenager Brian Honick of St. Augustine College Preparatory School thought of shoes. He decided to try to collect a thousand pairs. Cynthia Vogt, the manager of Premier Self Storage of Egg Harbor Township, offered a unit for shoe storage. And Shoes 2 Share International, a nonprofit organization specializing in distributing shoes to the needy, offered to take the shoes, clean them, and distribute them to Haitian adults and children through Operation THERE (The Haitian Earthquake Relief Effort). [More]